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| re: Of Course, His Story Was Immortalized by Christopher Durang | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 10:16 pm EDT 09/30/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Of Course, His Story Was Immortalized by Christopher Durang - BroadwayTonyJ 05:15 pm EDT 09/30/21 | |
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| I'll quote from it. After talking about how much he liked him in the movie Old Yeller, Vanya says "I wondered what happened to Tommy Kirk, and I did a Google search and I learned that sometime after he was in Son of Flubber, Walt Disney found out that Tommy Kirk was gay and he fired him. He dropped his contract. Meanwhile, Tab Hunter was gay, too but HIS studio just saw to it that he went on pretend dates with starlets. They didn't fire Tab Hunter. They starred him in movies opposite Sophia Loren, for God's sake. Tommy Kirk on the other hand was mistreated, and I TAKE IT PERSONALLY. As I expect he does, too. He stopped making movies. He took drugs for a period. And then later he got better and became a minister. And now he runs a cleaning business. I guess he's alright." Essentially, his impassioned rant about all that the world has lost between the seemingly quaint 1950s and the tweet-crazy 00s leads him to use his childhood crush on Tommy Kirk to come out to the audience at his play's performance, which has been so rudely interrupted by the straight and sexy Spike. I knew nothing about Tommy Kirk until I saw (and later read) the play, but I was struck by how his obituaries covered the very same ground. |
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| re: Of Course, His Story Was Immortalized by Christopher Durang | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 10:51 am EDT 10/01/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Of Course, His Story Was Immortalized by Christopher Durang - TheOtherOne 10:16 pm EDT 09/30/21 | |
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| Thanks for refreshing my memory. I saw Vanya, Sonia twice but forgot about the Tommy Kirk reference. I was a huge fan of Kirk's TV and film work in the 50's and 60's and was disappointed when he suddenly stopped making Disney movies. It wasn't until decades later that I learned the whole story. The details revealed a lot about the dark side of Walt Disney. | |
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